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Dragonflies and Damselflies (8 pictures)
Mostly from Arizona. Caught in the wild, around bodies of water, particularly in Sweetwater Wetlands, which is a haven for them in their season. Odonates, odonata, odes.
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Fractals (65 pictures)
Fractals are visual representations of complex mathematical formulas. This collection includes flame fractals made in Apophysis, and fractals made in UltraFractal, Xenodream, and Chaoscope. Fractal programs have a graphic interface that allows the artist to design the fractal visually. The program produces instructions that tell the computer what color to make each pixel in the image.
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Arizona Scenery (13 pictures)
The state of Arizona, located in the United States, contains vast areas of desert and mountains, and some of the most spectacular scenery in the world. World-famous Grand Canyon is one of many Arizona attractions.
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Digital Landscapes (21 pictures)
Digital landscapes are created in computer programs from many elements, including terrains, surfaces, skies, vegetation, and other elements. They are not photographs, although they can look very real. I like to make both realistic and imaginary scenes. I use some terrains which are really from a location on earth, and some which are purely imaginary, and may have been designed in a separate program. My digital landscapes are made in Terragen and Vue d'Esprit.
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Birds (20 pictures)
Most of the birds in my collection were photographed in the wild, and located in Arizona. A few are from other parts of the world. The United States is home to more than 800 species, and up to 500 of these visit Arizona during some season of the year. The visitors often are surprises to those not familiar with the ones that visit us; for example, we get seagulls. We have plenty of beach, but no ocean! I have photographed about 170 species, so if you are interested in something that isn't in my gallery, please ask. I just might have it.
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Hubisms (6 pictures)
A Hubism is an abstract image made in landscape programs such as Bryce and Vue d'Esprit. It is made using geometric shapes and other forms, with lights and reflective surfaces. A Hubism usually has far fewer objects in it than it would appear; others are reflections.
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Pat Goltz
Feel free to comment on my work in German and other languages. I want to thank all of you for the VERY warm welcome I have received! I can't possibly keep up with all of you, but I will visit your gallery as soon as I can.
I strive to be a Renaissance person in my life, someone who loves learning and practices virtue and joy. When I do art, my mind is engaged in pure thought, bypassing language. The visual impression itself is the meaning. My art begins with a found object, such as a random mathematical formula or something that catches my eye and therefore my camera. As I develop it, the found object and what I do to it merge seamlessly. My image grows as an organic object. When I do art, I discover what is hidden in the medium and reveal it, much as a sculptor finds the object in the rock and chips away everything that does not belong to the object. When I take a photograph, I merge with my subject and become my subject. Failure to do this means the photograph will not please me.
When I do photography, my purpose is to make natural beauty available to people who cannot go where I go.
I consider something to be art if it is beautiful, or inspires a person to do a humanitarian act. Art is supposed to be a conscious representation of order, not chaos. It is not supposed to be ugly. While beauty is in the eye of the beholder, for me it must have form and meaning. It should show skill. It is not violent, either to humanity, or to sensibility. Art shows the inner peace of the artist. Even artists who are in horrible life situations can have that inner peace, and it shines through. If there is not that inner beauty, I can't connect with the art or the artist.
When I do digital art, I often prepare my own "raw materials", such as scripts in Apophysis, or materials in Bryce.
Soli Deo Gloria.
